{"id":62024,"date":"2020-03-27T05:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T05:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/03\/27\/air-national-guardsman-killed-in-iraq-attack-is-returned-to-oklahoma\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:15:00","slug":"air-national-guardsman-killed-in-iraq-attack-is-returned-to-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/air-national-guardsman-killed-in-iraq-attack-is-returned-to-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Air National Guardsman killed in Iraq attack is returned to Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The body of an Oklahoma serviceman killed in a rocket attack on a U.S. base in Iraq has been returned to his home state, welcomed by a small collection of mourners whose gathering was restricted by efforts to contain the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt joined the family of the late Air National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts at a transfer ceremony Wednesday at the Tulsa Air National Guard Base, the Tulsa World<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts, 28, was one of two American servicemen killed on March 11 in a rocket attack at Camp Taji in Iraq. Roberts had been stationed in Iraq for two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\t